BLUE IN GREEN | Sophia Chai Exhibition Opening
Sat, Jan 31
|Griot Arts
Join us for a special afternoon with artist Sophia Chai as she opens her new exhibition BLUE IN GREEN at Griot Arts.
Time & Location
Jan 31, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Griot Arts, 115 N Broadway Ave, Rochester, MN 55906, USA
About the event
Sophia Chai was born in Busan, South Korea. With her most recent body of studio-made photographs, Chai references the phonetic alphabet of Korean, her mother tongue, and enacts three key ideas of language, optics, and photography. Chai has presented her work widely at sites including Luhring Augustine Gallery, the A.I.R. Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Knockdown Center, Marinaro Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Hyde Park Art Center, among others. Solo exhibitions include 106 Green Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2016), Rochester Art Center in Minnesota (2020), Hair+Nails Gallery in Minneapolis (2020, 2023) and Light Work in Syracuse, NY (2024). Chai is a recipient of a 2024/25 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, funded by The McKnight Foundation and administered by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Chai is represented by Hair+Nails Gallery in Minneapolis. She is based in Rochester, MN.
Sophia is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative…
